Cloud Infrastructure Delivery Lead

Accenture; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Delivery Lead Manager in London to direct high-performing teams delivering hybrid cloud infrastructure for large enterprises. The role involves architecture, strategy, and end-to-end delivery across on-premises and cloud environments, with travel required.

You will engage CIO/CTO and AI leaders, oversee project execution, and ensure robust operations, security, and resilience.

Qualifications

• Strong client-facing consulting experience.
• Ability to engage effectively with CIO, CTO and AI leadership teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience leading distributed architecture and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams to architect, engineer, operate and govern on-premises and cloud AI infrastructure solutions.
• Develop and deliver strategies and solutions including provisioning, configuring, managing, migrating and automating platforms on premise and in the cloud.
• Stay educated on new and emerging market offerings that may be of interest to clients.

Skills

Client-facing experience

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

AWS

Job description

Cloud Infrastructure Delivery Lead Manager

Location: London (with expected travel)

Salary: Competitive, plus benefits.

In this role you will:

Accenture’s Infrastructure Architecture & Engineering practice, within our Digital Core Reinvention group, is focused on providing best in class hybrid cloud infrastructure for large enterprise clients. Our team provides full lifecycle cloud and infrastructure services from consulting on strategy to leading large technology implementations.

Accenture’s Infrastructure Delivery Leads, manage high performing teams across consulting, delivery management, project execution, and technical expertise to partner with our clients to plan, analyse, design, test, and deploy enterprise scale end-to-end hybrid cloud transformation solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead in teams to architect, engineer, operate and govern on-premises and cloud AI infrastructure solutions
• Develop and deliver strategies and solutions – including architecting, provisioning, configuring, managing, migrating and automating platforms on premise and in the cloud.
• Stay educated on new and emerging market offerings that may be of interest to our clients.

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• Strong client-facing consulting experience.
• Ability to engage effectively with CIO, CTO and AI leadership teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience leading distributed architecture and engineering teams.
• Commercial awareness and business case development capability.
• Infrastructure design, build, and management experience in some of the following areas:
• Infrastructure fundamentals (e.g., Datacenter, Networks, Compute, Storage)
• Cloud and Infrastructure Migrations, Operations and Lifecycle management
• Cloud services (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
• Cloud and Infrastructure Security & Resilience (DR, HA, Backup & Recovery)
• Virtualization Platforms (e.g., VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix)
• Container Platforms (e.g., Openshift, EKS, AKS, GKS)
• Infrastructure Automation (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Python)